Hi Folks, This afternoon, around 5pm, I watched 2 Short-eared Owls flying in their usual area on Earl Armstrong Rd, south of the airport. This area is on the north side of the road between Limebank Rd and Bowesville Rd, more specifically between the hydro tower line and the "s" curve.
Just east along Earl Armstrong Rd, at the pond near the former train tracks were about 40 Common Mergansers and a pair of Green-winged Teal. Also, a bit earlier, there were, among many Canada Geese, a pair of Long-tailed Ducks, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser and Bufflehead in the pond a the Greeley Sand And Gravel on Old Prescott Rd, which is off Mitch Owens / Hwy 8, just west of Hwy 31 / Bank St, south of Ottawa. Happy Birding! Eve -- Eve Ticknor OFNC Falcon Watch Co-ordinator 38-9 Gillespie Cres Ottawa, Ontario, K1V 9T5 Canada 1-613-859-9545, 1-613-737-7551 http://www.ofnc.ca/birding.htm "The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE."
